in the. u.s. presidential candidate a billionaire michael bloomberg admits his team used prison labor to make a campaign called. belly dancers in paris and join the demonstrations against pension reforms which could see their retirement age rise from 42 to 64. parts of subsaharan africa suffer from a chronic shortage of prescription painkillers we look at how an ambitious project in rwanda is turning the situation around. our broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is our t.v.

international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us where us democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg has admitted his campaign made use of prison labor although the billionaire says he was unaware it was happening his team hired a firm to help with his 2020 election campaign which in turn employed female inmates to make campaign calls we learned about this when the reporter called us let's assume as we discovered which friend had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired them imagine being so reach you have people who have people who have prism is to do stuff for you. being so rich you don't even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. rita rating we sat in did when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we don't believe in this practice and we immediately stopped working with pro com

and the people who hired them so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them mike bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the presidential race and he has already outspent all the other democrat candidates on campaign advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesn't seem to have the time to check what he spent a good dog but there's credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just to. get it. for president. right america more jobs even if you don't particularly want them what makes it much much worse is that many of the prisons in the states a private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if you are in a jail and you are told to work you have to you'll be punished sometimes they pay you

as much as $20.00 a month that's right $20.00 a month now here's the irony mike bloomberg billionaire one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people apparently tell them that he's a good guy wait the bloomberg is he was paying someone to pay someone that he's running is business god help us. everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them but when billionaires do it it's generally an order of magnitude. it gets worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg. news sent out a letter to thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike is mike bloomberg started as

a middle class kid to work his way through college business from a single room to a global entity creating tens of thousands of good paying jobs along the way. there he could've he probably should've but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is ludicrous lee price tried gadgets the same bankers who through unbridled greed set off the 2008 financial crash the province tens of millions of people of whom as of life savings and jobs. michael bloomberg the president investigative journalist david lindorff believes the prison labor scandal is hugely damaging for bloomberg campaign. it really shouldn't be acceptable for anybody liberal or conservative to use prison labor it's forced labor bloomberg is a multibillionaire he's worth like $54000000000.00 he's made his money by you know

not paying attention to things like that. that he's not concerned about the little guy and which i guess becomes you know if you're if you're supposedly a democrat you're concerned about the little guy and. enormous a packer see it a big problem i think it's going to hurt him a lot i don't know where people get the idea that bloomberg is the great savior for democrats in the race in the race to give strength he has almost no poll support all the money. billionaires have not traditionally done that well running for office it's. you know you've got to have money to run for president but when you have that much money i think that most people are pretty suspicious of your motives in running for office. sub-saharan africa has long been suffering from an acute shortage of painkillers but a facility in rwanda is now making cheap drugs available to the region.

i do. think. the big boys in the end she was not even able to take the medication in the puzzle.

we've both been in management. human rights aid for people in open country in that community in the. human rights. crisis that has featured far fewer have. international attention as the non-medical use of the painkiller tramadol particular number of. control is a substance of growing concern particularly in north central and west africa regions of africa now account for 87 percent of pharmacies cry proces worldwide and

not the recent rises jew almost entirely. the trafficking. coming to me should hoeing. the international narcotics control board says that 92 percent of all morphine used is consumed by just 17 percent of the world's population living in western countries meanwhile low income nations in africa and asia can only meet a tiny fraction of their medical needs political analyst alessandro bruno says it's all about money karma suitable companies out of business is big businesses with many salaries to pay they need and a lot of them are listed in the stock market in other words they have shareholders they have to take care of so because these western companies focused on the expensive medicines they've reduced the ability and demand for the natural he

wants that's why the subject of morphine again is such a not just controversial it's unusual it's something that people don't talk about very much it's sad to say it cynical but lives tick a 2nd seat to profits and earnings and the the entire capitalist system contributes to that it's always a matter especially since in the last 25 years. stock market performance has taken precedence over everything else. a nationwide strike in france over pension reforms is now heading into its 4th week and a dance troupe in paris is stepping out of the theatre and making it on to the streets to make their feelings hurt.

people are less divisible today if what the girls have shown you with swan lake is 15 years of sacrifice and it's daily work every day every morning and there is a limit to how long it's possible to remain at that level of life if you want to continue to see pretty dancers on stage they can't go on until they're 64 it's not possible and perhaps the most beautiful protest that paris seen at this step but they don't see is what actually striking behind them they had fattest brads culture in danger and now this latest sequel the potential for by the french government this strike it's now 10 tickets paid the hit show support some i think the point is despite our education system this thing was a sustainable this is the only way to was basically yeah he's coming out still now

forms that. it's been told if you read the next. nothing he's done while the focus may be off from it's right now time of crisis is a problem some like to slow to the point is the baby blue chip bracing for continues to type pension systems across the world just raining on the white house as a result of the country's see the been slowly raising that a toilet or cooling of sewerage the tension that exists and the problem is that the demographics have changed in 1906 when the system was invented you had 4 people painful one pensioner and today you've got 1.7 people playing for one's attention this. of course that is completely unsustainable so it needs to be recalled and i basically i think you've got all these demonstrations of people saying yes but not yet you know not now i don't want to be the 1st one to to have

a worse situation so it's clear that the world right now would not at the end of the album even more money to retire on well not so fast according to prophecy intended which advice it is the c.l.r. situation is that perhaps it is the clinton's government this means testing own findings show that the overall cost of the front suspension system has in fact stabilized even reduced and that huge deficit government to this warning about could just be a blip shrinking down to $5000000000.00 you rates by 2030 so this is a ms reapers entity for the public government one of its 1st measures will was to suppress a tax on words and reckless is called by the french the president of the rich but if you tax bill you know so you must not forget to add an exchange controls in order to occur for tax to evasion because there is

a lot of leniency respects evasion in this country but very very few people trudge people want this new feudal american style dystopia that is the very program of president franklin but don't want their absolutely new days of strike action have already been announced that france has this standoff with unions that it's been using in the meantime artists and performers are determined to see the bait to scare away. the brogues a process has dragged on for more than 3 and a half years now so some british shoppers have decided to take matters into their own hands and split from brussels themselves.

to morrisons to see if these taste any better tried brussels sprouts. this problems have the right to their own identity the up from young man. himself identifying as a yorkshire sprouts in solidarity even the one from lancashire bit one with you in a sprouts. you're sure of sprouts taste really nice if they're cute in the salty tears remain or.

many of our customers are interesting knowing where the food comes from lincolnshire sprouts lincolnshire sprouts because they're from lincolnshire i yorkshire sprouts brown because they're from you many of our customers like to know that. u.s. intelligence officials are reportedly looking at new ways to prevent foreign interference in next year's presidential election according to the washington post that could involve a cyber warfare campaign against certain russian political future figures if an option has more. indeed washington post newspaper published an article citing fairies american officials former and current who spoke with the people on the condition of anonymity because of the issues sensitivity and the piece claims that u.s. cyber command is considering attacks to target senior russian leadership and the

country's elite though not president wide were putin in order to counter russian interference a new ss 2020 presidential election the idea would be the paper goes on that the personal sense to date or all of the targeted russian oligarchs and officials would be heat eve that interference did not stop we asked russia's foreign ministry spokesperson might is the heart of our to comment on that at the daughter's door the procedure in human it's the same thing that has been actively used for many years about western partners interference no internal affairs and regime change the us is now trying justify its actions which we can only sang for this acknowledgment of their illegal practices which they normally accuse everyone of themselves with russia's foreign ministry spokesperson what is the hottest prize that there is no single proof of any russian interference in any us election so far given while the counter measures are already being considered moscow is denying

any meddling party requested a comment from the u.s. defense department and cyber command we are waiting for their response refreshing our tea from moscow. with less than a week left of 2019 let's start taking a look at the outgoing year with polly boyko and artie's online series in case you missed it. as i see why my eyes the guide to the year that was january got brazil off on the right wing track when this guy nationalist and trump groupie zhai airballs n r o was sworn in as president. south america's largest nation a hostile takeover was launched at the start of 2019 in venezuela when this guy one guy go challenge the far right see all of the elected mr. surprise surprise why don't have the backing of the u.s.

and its allies the planned benevolent regime change didn't work out in cities across france the yellow vest movement continue to bash things out every weekend demanding that the french president to. build them an economically rosy future instead march toward a brutal acts of terror take place in new zealand when a psycho right wing not broke into a mosque in. lifestream the manager of tens of innocent civilians on face moving into april wiki leaks said it so julian assange toft out of london's ecuadorian embassy and the west by british police in was going to be. fiction the world was shocked when paris is not cathedral the home of the hunchback from that disney film fell victim to a fire that store its roof by a collapse and this moment was probably peak 2019 a comedian with no political experience and literally had played the role of an

ordinary man who accidentally becomes president was elected president of ukraine 2019 brought us an escalating us china trade war donald trump employees knew of chinese that sports and washington especially blacklisted while away the chinese target giant slash major threats to apple the gulf was getting tense too for a change in may to ron announced that it would stop complying with parts of the 2015. deal i would start enriching you radium again while in india and the rendering nobody won a 2nd term as prime in a. by 8. years. already. by the 7 oil treatment just 3 days later 3 years of failing to deliver greg's u.k. prime minister may officially threw in and all traces. the

poisoned chalice of gratitude that. citizens of hong kong to mistreat. angered by a chinese extradition. then this summer news law was interrupted by news of the death of a famous. guy with secrets about everyone had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges but he was mysteriously found data in his jail cell in new york triggering. brings us to the end of summer 2000. through the rest of your search for. missing. opposition figure has been called up for military service and sent to

a remote base. exemption. could. have been raging for almost 2 months now with firefighters facing extreme conditions against them a record heat wave with temperatures predicted to stay in the high thirty's to forty's over the weekend and into early next week 5000000 hectares of land have been burned nationwide in australia over the past few months 9 people have lost their lives and more than 150 homes have been destroyed smoke from the fires has blanketed the country's largest city sydney air pollution there has crossed the critical mark at certain times 11 times higher than the quote unquote life threatening threshold.

well on saturday environmental activists are rallying in sydney to condemn their prime minister's decision to go on holiday to hawaii while his country burned many of those gathered were also calling for stronger action to fight climate change responding to the crisis and criticism scott morrison had this to say in defense of his government's climate policy. a strategy is taking action on climate change what we want to is engaged in reckless and job destroying an economy crunching targets which is being seeking to be postured to us at the moment graeme sawyer from the australian association for environmental education believes the government is putting industry 1st we've always had paused but we've never had flaws like that and part of the issue is really bad environmental policy over a long period of time which is allowed the country to get out of that a shipe i think the big reason why they're defending the coal industry is because the coal industry in many many years is boarded so very close to government spent

a lot of money supporting governments got a little lobbyist and stuff working with governments on these issues the real issue i think is that they get a significant amount of revenue from the coal industry the jobs in the call industry not that significant when you look at the industries across the whole economy it seems to be an excuse to me i mean they're not showing any great signs of caring about the environment so i think there's a lot of people in this country who are being given to be quite couple by the fires and the really big issue is going to be how bad it is when the end of march. tired of the real world harm caused by almost 7 months of violent protests in hong kong the actions moved online instead of clashing on the real streets of the city rival sides have found another place to settle scores where only digital destruction can play out.

i don't blame you for not having the guts to throw the true bombs to the police in reality but in the game there are guns and rocket launchers and you don't have the guts to kill those male and gamers. said the deer returning to g.t.a. 5 to beat the fire will only burn brighter and again are we ready.

art imitates life i guess watching out international back with headlines of top there's. max and stacey are continuing on our south american tour and as you can see behind me we are in rio de janeiro oh my god so beautiful so much going on this is a country in transition. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to be rich.

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